Family to move to 150-acre estate near Athens
Kenny Rogers, Atlanta's restless Renaissance man, is on the move again.
The busy singer/actor/photographer/businessman/designer has put the Buckhead home he has lived in with his family for the past 17 months on the market for $7.95 million. Heather Steiner, an agent with Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby's International Realty, is handling the sale.
Rogers is planning to move with wife Wanda and their twin four-year-old boys to a 150-acre estate now under construction in Nicholson, Ga., near Athens.
Now on the market, Rogers' six-bedroom, six-and-a-half bath home perched atop a gated rise at 10 Valley Road is a product of his "high-end eclectic" tastes and energetic creativity.
"Every wall, every ceiling, every floor is different" from when Rogers bought the house in 2006, he said. "I touched every inch of this house."
The 9,000 square feet of the home showcase Rogers' preferences for earth tones and the influences of his many world travels.
"I love Chinese. I love Italian. And in almost every house I've had, I have an African room," Rogers said.
The home is offered for sale fully furnished. And it has an African-themed guest room upstairs, complete with zebra-skin rug and framed photos of Africa that Rogers shot himself.
Now — when he's not working on his new CD, another book of photographs or a possible furniture line — Rogers is guiding the development of the new home he is building to accommodate the needs of his young family.
He describes the estate as "kind of like Disneyland with animals."
In addition to the home now under construction, the fenced 150 acres will include a seven-acre lake stocked with fish and five miles of groomed trails for walking or biking.
Rogers said the project is absorbing the bulk of his energy at the moment, so much so that he passed on writing songs for his new musical project. Instead, he is carefully selecting contributions from other talented songwriters, such as Lionel Richie.
"If I'm fractured, trying to write songs and trying to do all my landscaping and I'm trying to decorate and I'm trying to build a house, I don't do anything well," he said. "If I stay focused, I think I'm good at a lot of things, but I can only do them one at a time."
Rogers, 69, hopes to have his new estate ready for occupancy this fall and is looking forward to spending less time on the road and more time with his family in Georgia.
"When it was just Wanda and me, we didn't care where we were," Rogers said. "Now that the boys are here, she has to stay here and I have to go on the road by myself. And it's a totally different feeling out there without her. You can't pull the boys around the world.... You have to prioritize and I'd much rather be with my family."
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